[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Judah Richardson]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:15 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>  Categorically does *not* work on my 4 slot Z400. It kernel panics before
> it reaches the single user milestone using the device specified in the
> prtconf -v output from my system. With the"2822" device Gary specified the
> boot fails. So it is not as simple as has been presented.
>
> BTW I've consistently been unable to login to single user mode on the GUI
> disk. It does not accept jack/jack, root/root or root/<null>. Is there
> something it *does* accept? In any case this should be fixed. It provides
> no security at all. At milestone all "sudo /bin/su" provides full control.
>
> Whoever decided that the root password entered at install time should be
> expired on first login should be hung by their thumbs. That is *very*
> annoying.
>
Eh, it's part of the OS family's paradigm. OpenSolaris and therefore
Illumos are designed to make it difficult for a single person to make
catastrophic changes to the system. Of course, ideally one would not be
installing the OS repeatedly in short succession ;)

>
> But not using all of a 5 TB disk in the GUI "full disk" install is simply
> brain dead. If a new user sees that they are not going to be favorably
> impressed. Even if the "new user" has the chops to fix it via the other,
> "not the same as the other" text installer.
>
> Reg
>      On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 07:59:09 AM CST, Gary Mills <
> gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 08:40:51PM -0800, Joshua M. Clulow via
> openindiana-discuss wrote:
> >
> > If ahci(7D) does indeed support this controller, and it's just that
> > the association with the specific PCI ID is missing, that's incredibly
> > easy to fix in illumos and then nobody needs to do the manual
> > update_drv dance ever again.  At present, it's just attaching to the
> > AHCI 1.0 PCI device class, 01:06:01:
> >
> >
> http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/pkg/manifests/driver-storage-ahci.mf?r=fd6d41c5#46-47
>
> The only permanent change to OI on my Z400 is this addition to
> /etc/driver_aliases:
>
>     ahci "pci8086,2822.103c.1309.0"
>
> I've since done many OS upgrades to the system, but never needed
> to make that change again.  Mostly, I forgot that I had done it.
>
> > But if we need to bind it to more specific devices that do not
> > advertise the class, it would just mean more aliases in the package
> > manifest.  It'd help to collect the data from prtconf and file a bug
> > report to start with, and then making the actual change is not likely
> > to be a great deal more work after that.
> >
> > It's always best to file and fix the underlying bug where we can,
> > rather than propagate workarounds like this.
>
> I looked around for my notes on the first install of OI on my Z400,
> but couldn't find anything.  Maybe it was that easy that I didn't
> bother making notes.  I do recall that only needed to follow the first
> part of the instructions.  The main thing is the add_drv and rebuilding
> the boot archive.  There was only one BE, of course.
>
>
> --
> -Gary Mills-        -refurb-        -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
>
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